I tend to err on the generous side. My average cast has slowly crept upwards while I've been here.
Maybe I'm just Mr. Softie, or perhaps I find something to appreciate in more images. I can probably bring my average down quickly if I start giving 5's or less to all the florals.

The average over my entire six years here looks too harsh relative to the average score for an image. This is a source of frustration for me. My voting average is higher now and in recent years than it was in the first three years. And, more importantly, my range of scores always includes a lot of 10s, 9s and 8s. I would be very happy to have a bar chart to show of the range and quantity of votes cast. And, I'd prefer the stats showed the last year or two or three of votes cast rather than be so anchored to my entire voting history. My average barely budges with additional votes now.

The other thing bothering me is the lower correlation of my set of scores with the challenge results. Used to be I would be highly correlated, especially with the top finishes. Now... not so much. I'm not sure what happened. I guess I must be out of sync with what is excellent photography.

I'm reasonably close to an average of 5.5, and probably would be closer if I could vote by tenths. A lot of images get a "5" from me that might otherwise get closer to a 5.5. My average vote given is slowly rising, due to a conscious effort the past few years to give more "benefit of the doubt" to images that seem to be close to the 5.5 mark.

Quite a low mark given - it would definitely be higher if I had another decimal place to score with. I use the full scale; very rare for me not to give out both 1s and 10s. The way I work is that anything that bores me gets capped at a 5 on the first pass. After I've given all of my marks out (I pretty much score the whole challenge) I then go through each 'grade band' bumping up for such things as technical proficiency - the degree to which that happens depends on the challenge. I'm likely to give more technical bonus points where the challenge itself has pushed people towards a pretty dull net output. In Free Studies, those technical points are less frequent - both because of the 'freedom to be interesting' issue and the fact that I always give out a number of 10s; the 9s I'll be liking less, the 8s less than that and the 7s less still etc.

Wanting to put sufficient distance between the very best images and the pack (in increments) will mean the 5 band is more highly loaded than the 6 band - hence my 5.1309 average given. I knew there was a point to all that rambling.

I am like Richard. The first couple of years I averaged 5.5, however the last several years my average has been going up. I have definetly found an appreciation for less than perfect technical images, and have enjoyed more emotive images, rather than just pretty pictures. More emotive images are getting very high marks from me now-a-days, rather than several years ago.